SACRAMENTO, Calif. - This is a busy time for Wiccans as they observe the pagan New Year. Today is Samhain (pronounced sow-in), the celebration of endings and beginnings and of remembering the dead.

(RNS) — In anticipation of its 50th anniversary, the landmark film’s ‘director’s cut’ was released Wednesday in time for the solstice, a major pagan holiday. (RNS) — The sun crests in the northern sky ...

Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe, by Ronald Hutton, (Yale University Press: May 2022), 256 pages. Gerald Gardner was an old man with a great tuft of white hair on his head and ...

(The Conversation) — Wicca and witchcraft are popping up in pop culture these days, from teenage witches on TikTok to a Marvel comic superhero called Wiccan. It has even led The New York Times to ask: ...

At the Aquarian Tabernacle Church, rituals with ancient roots celebrate Pagan gods, the Earth and “the smell of smoke in our hair.” INDEX — You don’t convert to being a witch. “You just wake up and ...

You might have heard about the internet in the 1990s – a veritable badlands of patchwork information, nascent digital ...

On another rainy Saturday, Minnehaha Park welcomed the Twin Cities Pagan Pride Festival for a vibrant event full of unique artists, educational rituals and so much more. Many gathered to celebrate ...

Picking up her Catholic rosary, Meg Williams, a 24-year-old from Maine, begins her prayers like this: "Hail Persephone, full of strength and beauty. . . . Blessed are you and blessed is the cycle of ...